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The Faculty of Arts is the largest faculty of the University of Calgary. It is also one of the University's founding faculties, along with commerce, education, engineering, graduate studies, science, and physical education. The official establishment of the current Faculty of Arts was in 2010, following the amalgamation of the four former Faculties of Communication and Culture, Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. However, the Faculty was founded under the mixed Faculty of Arts and Science banner in 1951. This curious measure of dates makes the Faculty of Arts one of the oldest and one of the youngest Faculties simultaneously, depending on where one counts. Since then, the Faculty of Arts has expanded to become one of the University's most comprehensive and interdisciplinary faculties, incorporating fields from the humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. Due to its extensive nature, the Faculty is housed in various buildings throughout the main campus. The Faculty currently has more than 7,100 undergraduate students with more than 725 graduate students. The student population is overseen by 378 academic faculty members with the aid of 132 administrative and support staff. Since 1966, the Faculty has produced 10 Canada Research Chairs, 20 fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, and well over 46,000 alumni throughout the world.The current Dean of the Faculty is Richard Sigurdson who was appointed on 1 August 2012. Dr. Sigurdson holds a doctorate degree in Political Science from the University of Toronto, where his main topics of research included Canadian politics, immigration, First Nations peoples, and multiculturalism. Prior to becoming Dean to the University of Calgary, he was the Dean for the Faculty of Arts and Acting Provost of University College at the University of Manitoba, where he also held the Duff Roblin Professorship of Government
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